November 2018 weather blog

November 2018

Key:

WW = West Wales
Lwn = Llanwnnen
LL = Long Lawford
CL = Church Lawford
CC = Capel Curig
MH = Milford Haven
Mids = Midlands
CITE = Coton-in-the-Elms, Derbyshire
COL = Climatological Observers Link
PWS = Personal weather station


Rather cool start turned mild and more unsettled:

Tue 6th Scolton Park, Pembs 20.6mm wettest in UK from frontal rain

Mild unsettled to mid month:

Thu 15th mild to very mild; sunny much of WW, Midlands sunny intervals.. (Trawsgoed 17.3c, CC 15.5c, Lwn, Mona & Pershore15.1c, MH 13.8c, Shobdon 12.9c). Aberporth officially sunniest in UK with 7.2 hrs, while at nearby Llanwnnen the estimate 7.5 hrs.

Fri 16th very mild again and bright, minima high (Pembrey 12.1c, Persore 12.0c, Lwn 11.4c, CL 11.1c), maxima Lwn 15.6c, Mona 15.4c, Trawsgoed 15.2c, Aberporth 15.1c, Hereford 13.7c, Nottingham & Shawbury 12.9c, Aberdaron 12.8c)

Short cold snap:

Tue 20th cold with some showers, a little sleet or snow for some high ground such as Brecon Beacons (max Tirabad 4.7c, Lwn 6.4c, Valley 8.3c, CITE 5.1c, Nottingham 5.2c, Pershore 6.6c)

Wed 21st cold/ rather cold, many areas dry, a few showers, wintry in places (max CC 3.7c, Lwn & Aberdaron 5.5c, MH 7.4c, Shobdon 4.2c, Market Bosworth 4.3c, Pershore 7.0c, Wellesbourne 7.3c)

Thu 22nd widespread frost, quite hard locally (minima Shawbury -3.7c, CL -3.1, Hereford -0.3c, Tirabad -0.7c, Lwn +0.7c, Aberdaron & MH 4.7c). Another cold day but dry and WW sunny (Valley 7 hrs, Lwn est 6.5 hrs, Shobdon 5.6 hrs) but cloudy/ misty Midlands away from Herefordshire and where very cold in places (maxima Shawbury 3.7c, Hereford 4.7c, CC 4.0c, Lwn 5.4c, Valley 7.8c)

Mild, windy unsettled end to the month, plentiful rain Wales:

Tue 27th Scolton CP, Pembs 31.8mm = wettest in UK (frontal rain); Llanwnnen 17mm (these 2100), Bablake, Coventry 15.4mm, CL 5.0mm (these 0900 28th Nov)

Wed 28th very mild and windy, severe gales parts of WW..gusts 87mph CC and over 70 mph for exposed coasts (Lwn 58mph). Maxima Shawbury 15.5c, Trawsgoed 15.4c, Lwn 13.6c, Aberdaron 13.2c.


Nature notes

19th plentiful gorse bloom coast road and Aberystwyth, November mild and sunny so far..


November 2018 summary:

Mild/ rather mild
Rather dry much of Midlands, rather wet much of WW
Generally quite sunny

Rainfall totals:

Valley 139.2mm (135%)
CC 224.0mm (76%)
Aberdaron 187.6mm (162%)
Bwllch-llan 153.0mm
Aberporth 156.0mm (144%)
Llanwnnen 198.3mm (133%)
Pembrey Sands 154.4mm (126%)
Mumbles 119.2mm (106%)

Nottingham 34.8mm
Shawbury 34.8mm (57%)
Coleshill 47.0mm (68%)
Coventry, Bablake school 50.4mm (81%)
Church Lawford 39.2mm (65%)
Note: no Long Lawford data as garden renovations so gauge removed
Pershore 39.8mm (70%)
Hereford 67.8mm (106%)


PWS

Llangeitho 141mm
Abermeurig Bont, Talsarn 128mm
Llanelli 120.1mm
Lawrenny, Pembs 180.3mm

Longford, Coventry 36.1mm
Bulkington 34.5mm
Dunchurch 32.5mm
Crick 33.5mm
Radford Semele, Leamington Spa 44.2mm
Daventry c 40mm
Shirley, Solihull 66.3mm
Alvechurch 58.7mm
Harborne, Bham 71.9mm
Edgbaston, Bham 43.7mm

Sunshine totals:

Valley 69.1 hrs (119%)
Aberdaron 66.8 hrs
Llanwnnen 71 hrs estimated (134%)
Aberporth 81.8 hrs (133%)

Nottingham 52 hrs
Shawbury 50.2 hrs
Coventry, Bablake school 63.7 hrs (81%)
Shobdon 50.8 hrs